The characters are based on Twain’s schoolmates and the setting on Hannibal, Missouri, where he grew up.

Dr. Tsesis speaks about the importance and the beauty of the American family and its glorious triumphs over the dramatic predicaments facing modern society.

Dealing with a child not only as a patient but also as a person helps a pediatrician become a part of the flowing river of life with its constant stories...

In 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment.

The Dialogues of Plato (427-347 B.C.) rank with the writings of Aristotle as the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought.

During 1905 and 1906, Geronimo, the legendary Apache warrior and honorary war chief, dictated his story through a native interpreter to S.M. Barrett.

The Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 BC and continued intermittently for twenty-seven years...

The Peloponnesian War, 431 to 404 b.c., pitted the all-powerful Spartan infantry against the supremely powerful Athenian navy.

Twenty of the world's greatest novelists live again! The authors take you on a magic carpet to the homes of these titans of literature, and you not only become their intimate friend...

Here are vivid stories of twenty painters who dreamed, struggled, and suffered so that they might give expression to their divine gifts: Giotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Titian…

Hear the stories of the scientists who have shaped the past 2,000 years. This audiobook provides...

This record of one of the most famous marches in history contains an account of the day-to-day life of ordinary men and soldiers and thus demonstrates how Greek theories of government and morality fared in actual practice.

Through Henry Fleming, Crane creates a great and realistic study of an inexperienced soldier trapped in the fury and turmoil of war and its horrors, both within and without.

In this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, Plato sought to answer some of the world’s most formidable questions, such as: What does it mean to be good?

Miles and Flora are two children who see ghostly apparitions. Their governess, a neurotic spinster, pits her will against that of the ghosts.

In 1845 Thoreau built himself a shanty in the woods by Walden Pond, where he lived from 1845 to 1847 to give himself a place for quiet contemplation.